Next week’s tour of homes on Lake Murray offers a different take on curb appeal — a view of homes from the lake.
Oddly enough, the more determined I am to plant only shrubs, the more interested I become in annuals — for exactly opposite reasons. Once you plant a shrub (with careful consideration of mature size), it becomes, more or less, a permanent fixture. When you plant an annual, you can count on its departure in fall, never to be seen again.- 9:19 PM
No need to ramble on praising the many health benefits of soybeans — their high-quality protein, their healthful oil and so on. We’ll assume you’re not living in a cave.- 9:19 PM
EVENTS HOME AND GARDEN TOURS The first Newberry Art in the Garden spring tour: Eight gardens will be on the tour, along with local artists exhibiting original works, 1-6 p.m. today.- 9:19 PM
Sometimes going green isn’t about buying the latest environmentally friendly gadget. Sometimes it’s about rescuing the old stuff.- 9:08 PM
To me, nothing screams springtime more than bulbs. We start off with the crocus, daffodils, tulips and hyacinths in winter and they can carry the garden into early spring. For the most part, those bulbs are all but gone by mid April. So, it becomes iris time!- 9:08 PM
Walking into a garden center this time of year can be a bit overwhelming. So many colors, textures, sizes. How to decide? We asked four local nurseries to pick four plants they would recommend to a customer. It wasn’t easy for them, either.- 5:47 PM
I am not a fan of azaleas. Their two weeks of April dazzle leave them slouching around the rest of the year looking less than sartorial.- 5:42 PM
Rosemary Hopkins has lived in Georgia for more than 40 years, but South Carolina will always be her home. She was born in Greenwood and raised in McCormick.- 5:47 PM
David Bradshaw remembers a day of planting years ago, a Friday afternoon when he was filling a 40-foot bed with seed potatoes. A neighbor, a woman probably in her 80s, wandered by as he was finishing, frowned and asked him, “What did you go and do that for?”- 6:40 PM
It’s hard not to love a plant that can serve dual purposes. One of my favorite flower bulbs, Allium schubertii, happens to be one of those dual-purpose plants. Allium schubertii looks great when it is flowering, and the cut flower can look great for years.- 6:40 PM
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